Picture yourself in a coat, on a hanger
I really hope someone gets that, because that's how this thing is going to usher in the new year; with style, belabored equanimity, and a touch of the bizarre. And if we're lucky on a cosmic scale, multiple posts...only time and the groundhog's shadow will tell.
"Fill me in on the last 3 months, go!"
My reply: Well, it all relates to the fact that I'm finally over my post-partum depression in relation to college, and I haven't even graduated yet. This often happens when you find out that you've got another on the way; I'm headed to grad school to study x-ray crystallography and biophysics. I spent the last term getting scammed by ETS (ie taking the GREs), researching potential schools and programs, and finally applying to them. Overall, a very stressful process, but it's starting to pay off; I'm headed to San Francisco and Fort Collins in February for interviews at UCSF and CSU. I really do think this is a good decision for me, it will take me out of the state and put me in an entirely new situation, not to mention the opportunity to devote myself to working on something novel and ideally, important. If I end up working with any of the faculty that I'm interested in, it will be. These are some top-notch people. Karolin Luger at Colorado State determined the x-ray structure of an entire nucleosome-DNA complex and was recently chosen as an HHMI Investigator, and literally everyone at UC San Francisco is just insanely brilliant.
So maybe I was a bit single-minded last term, but if the last week or so is any indication, the next few months may bring flavors of experience that I haven't had time for in a while, like getting in a bit of PT over at dixon, drunkenly micturating behind La Conga/Rigoberto's, and enjoying a large container of good ole' Carlo (grapejuice for grownups) with friends. Here's to some more of all of the above.
That's all for now, comrades.
P.S. Anyone up/down for some racquetball?
"Fill me in on the last 3 months, go!"
My reply: Well, it all relates to the fact that I'm finally over my post-partum depression in relation to college, and I haven't even graduated yet. This often happens when you find out that you've got another on the way; I'm headed to grad school to study x-ray crystallography and biophysics. I spent the last term getting scammed by ETS (ie taking the GREs), researching potential schools and programs, and finally applying to them. Overall, a very stressful process, but it's starting to pay off; I'm headed to San Francisco and Fort Collins in February for interviews at UCSF and CSU. I really do think this is a good decision for me, it will take me out of the state and put me in an entirely new situation, not to mention the opportunity to devote myself to working on something novel and ideally, important. If I end up working with any of the faculty that I'm interested in, it will be. These are some top-notch people. Karolin Luger at Colorado State determined the x-ray structure of an entire nucleosome-DNA complex and was recently chosen as an HHMI Investigator, and literally everyone at UC San Francisco is just insanely brilliant.
So maybe I was a bit single-minded last term, but if the last week or so is any indication, the next few months may bring flavors of experience that I haven't had time for in a while, like getting in a bit of PT over at dixon, drunkenly micturating behind La Conga/Rigoberto's, and enjoying a large container of good ole' Carlo (grapejuice for grownups) with friends. Here's to some more of all of the above.
That's all for now, comrades.
P.S. Anyone up/down for some racquetball?
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